Health Impacts
RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island
RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is a feature documentary about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown–the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. RADIOACTIVE covers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid homemakers-turned-activists, two women lawyers who took the local community’s case all the way to the Supreme Court, and a young female journalist…
Read MoreOnline radiation course: U.S. radiation exposure standards!
SIGN UP FOR OUR DECEMBER COURSE! Cindy Folkers (Beyond Nuclear) and Mary Olson (Gender and Radiation Impact Project) have set out to teach about radiation. One more class is slated for 2022: UNDERSTANDING THE HOW AND WHY OF U.S. RADIATION EXPOSURE STANDARDS December 6, 7 and 8 noon, ET In this third class hosted by…
Read MoreSchool contaminated by atomic bomb waste
Jana Elementary in the suburbs of St. Louis, is a majority minority school. It is also contaminated by radionuclides left over from a nearby WWII atomic weapons facility operated by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works. The school sits in the floodplain of Coldwater Creek, which itself was contaminated. Samples collected just outside and inside the school found…
Read MoreChildren exposed. Our in-depth look
A peer-reviewed article by Cindy Folkers and Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear, has been published in the British Medical Journal, Pediatrics Open. The article looks at how past and present regulations on radioactivity released from the nuclear power sector have never taken into account those potentially most sensitive—women, pregnant women and especially children. Children…
Read MoreOnline radiation courses: Registration now open
Mary Olson of Gender and Radiation Impact Project and Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear are teaming up to teach Radiation Information for Everyone (RIFE) — Online Short Courses on Radiation, Biology and Society. The two have decades of experience via work, study, and engagement with impacted communities and nuclear policy processes. They will invite colleagues to…
Read MoreThursday evening: NEIS Night With the Experts featuring Cindy Folkers
Nuclear Energy Information Service’s (NEIS) Night With The Experts is hosting Cindy Folkers — Radiation & Health Specialist with Beyond Nuclear — next Thursday, August 25 at 7pm Central (UTC -5) via Zoom. Cindy will highlight the damage radiation does to cells, including direct and indirect damage to DNA, and the diseases that can result…
Read MoreJuly 16 New Mexico frontline community events (1979 Church Rock uranium tailings spill; 1945 “Trinity” atomic bomb “test” blast)
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please see the email from Lilly Adams at Union of Concerned Scientists, below. Here are links to the documents that Lilly attached to her original email: 1. Red Water Pond Road Community Association/MASE flier; 2. TBDC press release. Please spread the word about these important events. Thank you. —Kevin Kamps, Beyond…
Read MorePress Release: Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium to Hold 13th Annual Candlelight Vigil
See the TBDC press release here:
Read MoreCommemorating the Trinity Test on July 16
July 5, 2022 email from Sofia Rose Wolman: Greetings, We’re writing to encourage your ongoing action, through marking Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Trinity Day this summer. This particular email is about July 16: the date of the Trinity Test in 1945, when the first nuclear weapon was exploded in the USA state of New Mexico. Wherever…
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